Each tribute has a skill that's valuable in the arena. For Beetee, it's his technical wizardry. He sees the arena with the strategy of a mechanic, picturing a weapon where others see nothing of value. Put this together with the others' skills, like Katniss' hunting prowess, and you've got a formidable team.

If there's ever a game to try hard to win, this is the one. But Katniss wants someone else to win: Peeta. She can't behave normally or even strategize to try to save the other players. As she understands it, she can only save one of them. To make matters worse, she has no way of knowing how Peeta will keep himself safe once she's out of the Games, so she has to stay alive as long as she can.